Glen Mills just forwarded this one:
Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea
BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
www.iht.com/.../china.php
Then there was this:
Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijings shocking death camp for cats
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Olympics-clean-Chinese-style-Inside-Beijings-shocking-death-camp-cats.html
This was early on, but it sounds like they will have as much as half the amount of cars on the road by banning all government workers from driving:
Olympians air a gripe about Beijing
March 12, 2008
Matt Reed was 1,500 meters into the last segment of the triathlon when he found himself gasping for oxygen. His legs were still pounding away at the pavement, his body pumped up after cruising through the swimming and cycling contests, but his lungs were shutting down.
The 32-year-old triathlete from Boulder, Colo., blames air pollution for triggering his asthma attack during the September track meet.
articles.latimes.com/.../fg-olyair12
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they said yes to China because they have been saying no for so long. It is truly ne of the worse governments in the world. what is truly upsettign is that we will only see the "Beautiful China' I'm sure NBC is going to kiss the toes of the Chinese leaders and sho nohting truly happening in The Peoples Republic of China. If NBC leaves the olympics we will see beautiful little children, the Great Wall, the buried Army and maybe pandas. Nothing about the polution in northeastern China where daily people die from efects of pulotion, no world about the coditions in china's prisons (the worst in the world), no story about the flood of young going into the cities leaving the countryside full of elderly who can't take care of themselves nor provide the agricultural needs of the cities.
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Craig, I have seen you expressed your resentments against Chinese government in several of your posts concerning China. Nothing wrong with that. And most information I have read in your posts is true, especially the statement you made that the government is one of the worst.
one thing you kept repeating is that you constantly imply the absolute linkage between the government and the "ugly" side of China (this is not a proper word. It is just used as opposed to the Beautiful you mentioned). And there is no doubt that the government, in one way or another, has caused the misery or escalated the situation.
BUT it is wrong to assign all the responsibilities of those misery to the government. Most of the misery, if not all of them, have existed and continued in CHina for centuries. The current government, in its essence, has nothing different from the previous government or dynasties. What it did was following the footsteps of its predecessors, either leave those problems alone or solve them, or try to solve them but failed to do so and escalated them.
they said yes to China because they have been saying no for so long. It is truly ne of the worse governments in the world. what is truly upsettign is that we will only see the "Beautiful China' I'm sure NBC is going to kiss the toes of the Chinese leaders and sho nohting truly happening in The Peoples Republic of China. If NBC leaves the olympics we will see beautiful little children, the Great Wall, the buried Army and maybe pandas. Nothing about the polution in northeastern China where daily people die from efects of pulotion, no world about the coditions in china's prisons (the worst in the world), no story about the flood of young going into the cities leaving the countryside full of elderly who can't take care of themselves nor provide the agricultural needs of the cities.
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Craig, I have seen you expressed your resentments against Chinese government in several of your posts concerning China. Nothing wrong with that. And most information I have read in your posts is true, especially the statement you made that the government is one of the worst.
one thing you kept repeating is that you constantly imply the absolute linkage between the government and the "ugly" side of China (this is not a proper word. It is just used as opposed to the Beautiful you mentioned). And there is no doubt that the government, in one way or another, has caused the misery or escalated the situation.
BUT it is wrong to assign all the responsibilities of those misery to the government. Most of the misery, if not all of them, have existed and continued in CHina for centuries. The current government, in its essence, has nothing different from the previous government or dynasties. What it did was following the footsteps of its predecessors, either leave those problems alone or solve them, or try to solve them but failed to do so and escalated them.
